A new Associated Press-GfK Poll released today finds that almost four of every five Americans now believe ...

A new Associated Press-GfK Poll released today finds that almost four of every five Americans now believe that temperatures are on the rise and global warming will become a serious problem if nothing ...

The Supreme Court of the United States on Friday did what many expected them not to do - agree to hear ch ...

The Supreme Court of the United States on Friday did what many expected them not to do - agree to hear challenges to DOMA and Prop. 8. The challenge to Proposition 8 has been followed closely here. Ju ...

The news on the same-sex marriage front was a big no new announcement, with the Court declining to take a ...

The news on the same-sex marriage front was a big no new announcement, with the Court declining to take action at this time. That leaves two huge issues open - the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and ...

California has begun, through the long-delayed AB 32 signed in 2006 by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegge ...

California has begun, through the long-delayed AB 32 signed in 2006 by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, to implement a carbon cap-and-trade system that would reduce the state's greenhouse gas emis ...

It is a day hyped as the biggest shopping day of the year, but Walmart workers are threatening to use tha ...

It is a day hyped as the biggest shopping day of the year, but Walmart workers are threatening to use that hype to their maximum leverage, as they plan to walk out from a job at American's largest pri ...

For years since California passed its medical marijuana law, the federal government, often to the bewilde ...

For years since California passed its medical marijuana law, the federal government, often to the bewilderment of many who wonder about the prioritization of resources, has battled the state on the is ...

Human trafficking is a growing problem and Californians overwhelmingly supported the passage of Prop 35, ...

Human trafficking is a growing problem and Californians overwhelmingly supported the passage of Prop 35, which created harsher sentencing for those involved in human trafficking. 81 percent of the vot ...

Four years ago was a time of hope and change amid an economic crisis that came far closer, than most want ...

Four years ago was a time of hope and change amid an economic crisis that came far closer, than most wanted to imagine or believe, to bringing down the entire western financial markets. In the middle ...

It never ceases to amaze me that when the chips are down and all else is failing, the fallback position o ...

It never ceases to amaze me that when the chips are down and all else is failing, the fallback position of any failing campaign - particularly a Republican one - is to blame the messenger, i.e. the me ...

I have always struggled to distinguish in the classical sense the difference between a comedy and tragedy ...

I have always struggled to distinguish in the classical sense the difference between a comedy and tragedy. I have finally arrived at the reason for the such difficulty - a tragedy should be recast as ...

Recently the war in Afghanistan reached a grisly milestone as the number of US deaths surpassed 2000. It ...

Recently the war in Afghanistan reached a grisly milestone as the number of US deaths surpassed 2000. It was just under 11 years ago, months after the attack on this date, September 11, 2001, that th ...

Labor Day has become a celebration of laborers and workers everywhere. And while we treat Labor Day as a ...

Labor Day has become a celebration of laborers and workers everywhere. And while we treat Labor Day as a day to honor workers, perhaps a day to celebrate workplace protections - and some take it as a ...

It is not often that two local columnists speak out and put their necks on the lines. But we have to han ...

It is not often that two local columnists speak out and put their necks on the lines. But we have to hand it to Rich Rifkin and Marcos Breton, who take on the power and uncomfortable truths. I will g ...

There are times when the issues facing our community mirror the issues facing our nation. I feel at time ...

There are times when the issues facing our community mirror the issues facing our nation. I feel at times like I live in two worlds - the world that I sleep in, and the world that I live the rest of ...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that US carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are at their lo ...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that US carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are at their lowest level for the January-March period since 1992. However, the agency would attribute the de ...

Editorial Carried by Enterprise Notes How Hot This Summer Has Been - Governor Jerry Brown on Monday annou ...

Editorial Carried by Enterprise Notes How Hot This Summer Has Been - Governor Jerry Brown on Monday announced the launching of a new website to document the dangerous effects of global warming and cal ...

Back in June, Assembly Bill 1831 by Assemblymember Roger Dickinson was killed in the in the Senate Govern ...

Back in June, Assembly Bill 1831 by Assemblymember Roger Dickinson was killed in the in the Senate Governance and Finance Committee. The bill would have prohibited requesting criminal background infor ...

Politics is often boiled down to its most base and absurd, when simplistic slogans replace rational thoug ...

Politics is often boiled down to its most base and absurd, when simplistic slogans replace rational thought and respectful discourse. Every time we have a horribly tragic mass shooting - which is far ...

The most appalling factor in the death of young Maria Isabel Vasquez-Jimenez in May of 2008 was not the f ...

The most appalling factor in the death of young Maria Isabel Vasquez-Jimenez in May of 2008 was not the fact that she was 17, not the fact that she had worked nine hours in temperatures that reached 1 ...

Why am I reading this? I asked myself earlier in the week. I am referring to the report from Sheriff Joe ...

Why am I reading this? I asked myself earlier in the week. I am referring to the report from Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona. He purported to the media that he had conclusive proof th ...

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